John lehman



'UNITED STATES .ATENT OFFICE.

v JOHN LEMMAN, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE VAKE FIELD RATTAN COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

REED CHAIR, 80C..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,959, dated April 2S, 1889.

Application filed September 8, 1888. Serial No. 284,864. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: supporting frame is rabbeted or otherwise Be it known that I, JOHN LEMMAN, a citizen reduced upon the outside around the upper of the United States, residing at Wakefield, in edge of the same, forming the notch a, having the county of Middlesex and State of Massaone approximately vertical and one approxi- 55 5 chusetts, have invented certain new and usemately horizontal wall. In the construction :t'ul Improvements in Reed Chairs and other shown in Fig. 1 holes for the reception of the Furniture; and I do hereby declare the folbase or warp strands b of the border or curlowing to be a full, clear, and exact descriptain are formed in the vertical wall of the tion of the invention, such as will enable othnotch. In these apertures the base or warp 6o 1o ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to strands of the border or curtain are placed make and use the same. and glued or otherwise secured and the border My invention relates to reed and analocompleted by weaving in the filling-strands gous furniture. In making chairs and like arin a well-known way, giving the border or curticles of this class of goods it is common to tain the form desired. 65 I5 provide the seat with a border or curtain of The seatsframe in my construction is prowoven-reed material, the base or warp strands vided with an upper face of considerable or pieces of which are inserted in vertical width surrounding' the seat, and which at the openings or holes in the upper face of the seatfront sustains the wear incident to the use of frame. The object of this border or curtain the chair, and the warp-strands are attached 7o 2o is to conceal the seat-frame and the braces for to the frame in the notch of the rabbet at an the legs of the chair, and it extends downward angle to the vertical wall of the same, so that a sufficient distance to accomplish this result. the whole of the curtain or border is below This construction is objectionable, in that the the upper or wearing face of the frame and upper portion of the border or curtain is made sustains little or no wear. The horizontal 75 2 5 to extend above and over a portion of the seatface of the notch made by the rabbet is so far frame and gives a rough raised edge to the below the upper wearing-face of the frame seat. This raised portion of the border or thatl it would receive no appreciable amount curtain receives much weight at the front of of wear if the curtain should be removed. t the chair, iiattening it down at that part of its The term upper face is used in this speci- 8o 3o length, which causes the lower portion to iication and claims todenote the face ot' the change its shape after the chair has been used seat-frame exposed to wear, or which would a short time, injuring its appearance. be exposed to wear if the curtain or border My invention is designed to avoid these obwere removed, and this term is not intended jections; and it consists in certain peculiarito include the horizontal face of a rabbet lo- 8 5 3 5 ties of construction, whereby the base or warp cated as described and shown lierein-thatis strands ofthe border or curtain are attached to say,when it is in such a position that it will to the seat-frame below the upper face of the receive little or no wear when the curtain or same. border is removed.

In the drawings I have illustrated several C are the supports for the back, and c the 9o 4o methods inwhich I have contemplated applyarms of the chair, and it will be seen that ing myinvention,and mysaidinvention is disthese are secured into the seat-supporting closed in the following description and claims: frame between the seat D and border or cur- -Figure l is a sectional view of the seat portain B. This, it will be seen, avoids the netion of a chair embodying my invention. Fig. cessity of weaving around these parts when 95 45 2 is a top View of a seat with the back of the weaving the border or curtain.

chair cut away above the same. Figs. 3, 4, Instead of securing the base orwarp strands and 5 are sections of said frames, showing to the seat-supporting frame they may be indifferent modes of securing the base or warp serted in and secured to a separate strip or strands to the same. piece, A', and this strip secured to the seatroo 5o In the drawings, A is the seat-supporting frame, as shown in Fig. 3. In Fighe I have frame, and B the border or curtain. The seatshown a different method of attachment. In

v cured in place.

In Fig. 5 instead of placing the base or warp strands in apertures a second rabbet or notch is made, and these pieces placed between the bottom wall of this notch and the piece A. The piece A may in this instance be secured by screws, bolts, or in any preferred manner.

I may also provide the piece A on its under side with grooves or notches to receive theV base or warp strands, if desired.

In all cases,it will be seen,the base or warp strands of the curtain are secured to the seatframe below the upper surface of the same.

Thile I have shown and described my invention as applied to a chair, it is obvious that the border or curtain can be attached in like manner to other articles of furniture, where such a construction may be found desirable.

I am aware that it has been proposed to slightly reduce or out away the entire upper face of the seat frame outside of the seat proper, and to attach the warp-strands of the border or curtain in vertical holes adjacent to the seat proper to avoid having the curtain or border extend above the seat proper; but this is not my invention, nor is it claimed by me, as in this case the curtain extends over the upper face of the seat-frame and receives all the wear usually borne by the seat-frame.

In my construction the whole of the border or curtain is below the upper face of the seatframe and receives little or no appreciable wear.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

l. The improved chair seat herein described, provided with a woven border or curtain, the warp-pieces of which are secured to the seatfsupporting frame below the upper surface of the same, the Whole of said border or curtain being below the upper face of the seat-frame.

2. The herein-described chair-seat, providedv with a woven border or curtain, the warppieces of which are secured to the seat-supporting frame below the upper surface of the same, and a securing -piece for said Warppieces, the whole of said border or curtain being below the upper face of the seat-frame.

3. The combination, with a seat and its supporting-frame provided with a rabbet on the outer edge of the same, of a border or curtain, the warp-strands of which are secured to said frame and at an angle to the vertical wall of said notch, the whole of said border or curtain being below the upper surface of the seatffrarne, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN LEMMAN.

Vitnesses:

WILL EVERETT EATON, CHESTER W. EATON. 

